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Drug Users

"Drug Users" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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People who take drugs for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. The drugs may be legal or illegal, but their use often results in adverse medical, legal, or social consequences for the users.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drug Users" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drug Users" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 20 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2018 and 2023 and 2024
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